Footpad: a retrospective of a naming

[footpad]

Saturday was the thirtieth birthday of pebblepup, an important event about which I shall write in due course

Comments

[shep_shepherd]

I've never been on FurryMUCK. I have no real idea what it is. I think I was put off of it by its name's scatalogical connotations...

What was I doing in mid-November 1997, apart from celebrating my 20th whelpday? That's right, I was grudgingly in my second year at the dear old U of K, studying for a business degree, which has become more of a hindrance than a help in the job market :(

[footpad]

It's a Multi-User Chat Something-or-other: I think they pegged on the 'K' to make it into a real word. There's no actual muck involved, except for the furtive minority who care for that sort of thing. In effect, it's a sort of cross between IRC- or messenger-type chat, and tabletop role-playing games. I spent a good two years comprehensively addicted to the damn things, and have kept up a healthy interest ever since.

[shep_shepherd]

Hmm. Not my sort of thing. I can barely cope with instant messengers as it is...

[growf]

Multi-User Construction Kit (ie, a builder's MUD).

[mikosquirrel]

I've mentioned this before, but a reminder: I'll buy your LiveJournal in hardback if it's ever printed.

[akeela]

Seconded.

[maguslupus]

Thirded. ;P
Just can't get enough of your charming writing.

[rantingmule]

*licks* this is...brilliantly written. Mind if I share it with a close friend, who'd really get a kick out of it? XD

[footpad]

If you mean Wonder Goat then the answer's an unqualified 'yes,' just because after my little misconception when I first saw you write 'sandwiches with Wonder Goat,' I can't help thinking of their name as denoting something to spread on rye bread.

Anyone else: well, still yes. In general that goes for any f-locked post of mine that isn't obviously about Embarrassing Stuff: I only lock them because I don't want everybody reading them. So, as long as you're not secretly talking to my aunt...

[yarwick]

Would I be first in line to be mauled for noting that 2006 - 1997 = 9? ;)

[footpad]

Oopsicle! Corrected.

[huskyteer]

> And I’ve been fending off paw-fetishists ever since.

Sorry. I just can't help myself.

[footpad]

Oh? Well. Thing is, you're a husky and huskies get far more than the usual social licence. Because if they didn't then they'd take it anyway.

I hope you were at Pebble's bash. Although if it turns out that you weren't, I'll actually be relieved because otherwise it would mean that our paths crossed yet we didn't actually meet, which would be exasperating.

[huskyteer]

I wasn't, I fear - absent-mindedly committed to something else. A pity, as it would have doubled the number of Friends-list furs I've actually met.